The report says UK Border Agency staff and the judiciary show "systemic discrimination" against those claiming asylum on the basis of sexual persecution.
There are even passages that border on the anti-Semitic, such as her bizarre aperçu that the Jewish "instinct for publicity" is "the real basis of the persecution of the chosen people".
Furthermore, Trump's order gives precedent to Christian Syrians who apply for refugee status in a provision that gives preferential treatment to minority groups seeking asylum "on the basis of religious-based persecution".
The executive order further states that the United States should "prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality".
But the order instructs the U.S. refugee program to "prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality" — in other words, Christians in these majority-Muslim countries.
Finally, the new order also removes the section in the original stipulating that some refugee claims could be prioritized "on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual's country of nationality".
To qualify for refugee status, an applicant must show "a well-founded fear of persecution" on the basis of race, religion, nationality or social or political affiliations.
It really has to be a fear of persecution on the basis of race, religion, political positioning, and so on.
Immigrants can apply for asylum within a year of arriving in the United States and may qualify if they can show that they have suffered persecution or have a "well-founded fear of future persecution" on the basis of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group or political opinion.
